Grass8989

Grass8989 t1_j4vba0v wrote

Hard hitting journalism from the gothamist. No one could have foreseen evictions increasing after the end of the moratorium!

“The number of legal residential removals rose each month from January to November following the end of the pandemic-spurred eviction moratorium that halted all but 239 legal removals between March 15, 2020 and its expiration on Jan. 15, 2022, according to city data.”

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Grass8989 t1_j2noqv4 wrote

I don’t think closing the physical space would matter much, the vast majority of people that are being held on Rikers are being accused of pretty serious crimes. The solution shouldn’t be to release dangerous people pretrial just for a statistic. Speeding up the courts will get people sentenced and sent upstate (or wherever) where they can serve their actual time.

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